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Show Mint LIKE Y0URSEIF8 5. "The Furred Terror" IC By FLOYD GIBBONS jfj Famous Headline Hunter i 0 -ff GibSrf" Jackson Heights, N. Y., is today's " T t Adventurer, and the tale he tells is one that jf hair creep up the back of your neck. It's a I ie f.inds me of the gladiatorial arenas of Rome II used to throw Christians to the wolves and pit EJ JJy Combat against Numidian lions and bears '' .German forests. . neither a lion nor a wolf, nor a bear that brought this t. Tills to Orville Gibbs, and instead of a Roman arena, he 'Stoe living room of his own house. l' know how it was In Roman times, but nowadays ad- I r m Charity, almost always begin at home. II r, Orville Gibbs has been thrown Into Intimate contact with - 1 He ran away as a boy to Join a circus, started as a water "ft elephants and worked his way up until he was a full- handling all sorts and species of wild beasts. From the " ffld to Hollywood and helped direct animal films. While ' he was given several monkeys which he kept In cages in louse He trained these monkeys, and they're still there, Id by his father. None of them ever gave any trouble. Jack Was a Bright Monkey. - .re's always an exception. Orville moved East, then went to L bought another bunch of monkeys and shipped them r in' New Rochelle, N. Y. He and his wife started to train ,i flch but one of them-Jack was brighter than the others. - Tntrated on him. He would bring him Into the house and ! Crts of fun with him. But Orville's wife kept away from that -had bitten at her arm several times. evening Orville brought Jack Into the house. He had him ; Up playing with him In the usual manner when suddenly, Jiming, Jack emitted a ferocious screech and leaped for 'i throat. And that was the beginning of as horrible a u ny Roman arena ever saw. ecame for me," says Orville, MI threw my right arm to ward jjck'S teeth snapped shut, and he broke practically every bone J He crunched Orville's left wrist. S iid. The hand started bleeding as If an artery had been sev E as so stunned that I could do little but shove him away, and s made .another screech and leaped again. It Looked Bad for Orville. w up my left arm. He crunched It at the wrist, piercing the sreaking several bones. Then I leaped to my feet, just as he at me again. I was dressed in riding clothes, and the Mis stood me in good stead. I kicked at him savagely and !i him for a moment, but he bit clear through the boots several was just the start of a terrible fracas and a mighty bad start e, "There I was," he says, "cornered by a wild monkey, weigh-y-two pounds screeching horribly and leaping from chair lo table trying to get at me. Whenever he thought he had me at my throat, and here I was, my hands useless, bleeding like g, and growing weaker every minufe." re's wife had run from the room. He shouted, to her to pass him land cautiously she broke a pane from one of the french doors fed the weapon through. "To my horror," says Orville, "I could I pull the trigger. I passed the gun back through the broken I my wife telling her to cock it all this time dodging several lushes and leaps. Finally the gun came through, cocked. I p to this day how I ever succeeded in aiming it and pulling the pt if I had placed the gun to his head and fired I couldn't fie a more perfect shot right between his eyes!" J He Shot the Maddened Beast. Blood began to pour from the gaping hole In the monkey's 1 But still, to OrvUle's horror, THE BEAST CAME ON SIN AND AGAIN! Frozen with terror he passed the gun out for bis wife to cock. And again Orville doesn't know how er managed to fire it. This time the bullet caught the ani-.1 ani-.1 right through the eye and down he went. f'And," says Orville, "down I went, too!" File's wife called the hospital' The ambulance came, and the I found him lying on the floor covered with blood. Orville's own :Mied to the hospital. "And," says Orville, "he didn't have his tilh him. While I lay groaning and bleeding, they sent back for ses. They gave me morphine and more morphine. By the f glasses did come the doc told me that I was so well doped up I'Sht as well go on the operating table without an anesthetic. ' ! told him to go ahead. It took them exactly one hour and a forty-eight stitches to sew up the holes that animal had made. t came Pasteur injections. His hands were reopened and the "And now," he says, "I'm back to work with a stiff right a pair of hands and wrists that will be weak for some time I nowadays, Orville has a motto. No more monkeys! I Copyright. WNU Service. |